| Education:
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, 2006
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris Denis Diderot, Paris VII (La Chancellerie des Universités de Paris, Sorbonne), 1997
- D. Phil. Let. (Doctorat Légal en Philosophie et Lettres), with High Honors (Grande Distinction), Louvain University, Belgium, 1970
- Agregation (Agrégé d’Enseignement Moyen du Degré Supérieur), with Honors (Distinction), Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo, 1966, Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo, 1966
- Graduate Studies in Applied Linguistics, University of Besançon, 1966
- BA (Licence en Philosophie et Lettres, Groupe Philologie Romane), with Honors (Distinction), Lovanium University, Kinshasa, 1966
- Diploma (Candidature en Philosophie et Lettres, Groupe Philologie Romane), Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Congo, 1964
- Junior College Degree Economics(Graduat), Lovanium University, Léopoldville (Kinshasa), Congo, 1962
Research Interests:
Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature at Duke University, V.Y. Mudimbe received his Doctorat en Philosophie et Lettres from the University of Louvain in 1970. In 1997 he became Doctor Honoris Causa at University of Paris VII. Before coming to Duke, he taught at the Universities of Louvain, Paris-Nanterre, Zaire, Stanford University, and at Haverford College. He has published some seventy articles, three collections of poetry, four novels, and several books in applied linguistics, philosophy, and social science. His recent publications include: L'Odeur Du Père (1982), The Invention of Africa (1988), Parables and Fables (1991), The Idea of Africa (1994), and Tales of Faith (1997). He is editor of The Surreptitious Speech (1992), Nations, Identities, Cultures (1997), Diaspora and Immigration (1999), and editor of a forthcoming encyclopedia of African religions and philosophy. He is also former General Secretary of SAPINA (the Society for African Philosophy in North America) and co-editor with Robert Bates and Jean O'Barr of Africa and the Disciplines (1993).
V.Y. Mudimbe is also Membre Correspondant de l’Académie Royale des Sciencs d’Outre Mer, Brussels; a life Member of la Société américaine de philosophie de langue française; as well as a member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. His interests are in phenomenology and structuralism, with a focus on the logic of mythical narratives and the practice of language. He served also as Chairman of the Board of African Philosophy, and he is the Chairman of the International African Institute, SOAS, University of London. He regularly teaches on ancient Greek geography, French phenomenology, and African themes.
Recent Publications (More Publications)
Book in Progress
- V.Y. Mudimbe. From African Fault Lines: Questions in Philosophy of Cultures [working title; to be translated into Spanish].
edited by Ishita Banerjee and Romer Cornejo El Colegio de México, 2010
- V.Y. Mudimbe, et al. Encyclopedia of African Religions & Philosophy.
edited by V.Y. Mudimbe Springer Academic Publishers, 2010
Articles in a Journal
- V.Y. Mudimbe. "Masques aux quatre points: A Meditation." SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly 109 (2) (2010): 431-446.
Articles Accepted in Collection
- V.Y. Mudimbe. "Si Essent in Analogia: A meditation on this Difference that might not be one." Colonial Modernity.
Ed. Marion von Osten. Black Dog, 2010.
- V.Y. Mudimbe. "Preface." Christian Diversity and Its Implications to the People of Vihiga District, Kenya.
Ed. Susan M. Kilonzo. 2010.
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